Six days before police say she killed her ex-boyfriend and then took her own life, Anne Marie Goodell thought of happier times.

On Aug. 8, Goodell posted an undated picture on Facebook of her and Troy Richard Benjamin, 40, and commented: “I was blind, but now I see.” She also showed an anniversary card with the handwritten words, “Baby girl, I still love you with all my heart and soul. With everything. You are the love of my life and my dream come true!!”

But Goodell, 50, claimed that she learned three weeks after that June 14 card that Benjamin had a new girlfriend and was leading a “double life.”

On Aug. 10 on Facebook, she posted a photo of herself and commented, “As happy as I had ever been.” The next day, she changed her profile picture and commented: “Happier times. Of(sic) only I were smart enough to know it.”

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Last Thursday, both were found shot to death in their Harrison Township apartment. Police have categorized it as a murder-suicide . The couple had previously broken off their engagement but had continued living together, police said.

The bodies were found by Goodell’s daughter in the 36000 block of Gordon Lane, in the Clinton Manor Apartments near Union Lake Road and Metropolitan Parkway.

“The daughter did say, in her own words, that it was an ‘abusive situation,’” Macomb County Sheriff Anthony Wickersham said.

Sheriff’s deputies had been to the home twice in the past, after Benjamin or Goodell had complained of the other taking a phone or iPad away. But officials found no reports of previous assaultive behavior.

Whatever the relationship, it ended violently early Thursday morning. Neighbors reported hearing gunshots at 3 a.m. but did not call police, Wickersham said.

Goodell’s daughter, who had moved out of the apartment less than two weeks ago, arrived shortly before 3:45 p.m. and made the gruesome discovery, police said.

“She was coming to pick her mother up to take her out to dinner,” Wickersham said.

Benjamin was found dead on a couch from three gunshot wounds. Investigators believe he may have been shot while sleeping.

Detectives believe Goodell then turned the gun on herself. No suicide note was found.

The 9 millimeter handgun found at the scene was registered to Goodell, said Wickersham, who did not immediately know when she had acquired the pistol.

Prettylittleannemarie.com includes dozens of photos of the couple in happy times. According to the website, the couple met at an ice cream parlor in Wyandotte.

“The first time I saw Anne Marie, my heart stopped, I had butterflies in my stomach,” Benjamin wrote. “I have always been a sceptic of love at first site, but if there is such a thing…this was it.”

He felt that they were meant to be together. He said she later admitted to him that she felt the same way that night.

The couple became engaged in March 2013. He proposed in a wooded area near Lake Michigan, and they set a wedding date of June 14, 2014. Along with photos, he wrote: “Everyday with her is like a dream come true, and I find myself falling more in love with her everyday! Baby girl, I love you with every fiber of my being and I cannot wait to make you my wife!”

Investigators said there was no indication that a break-in had occurred at the apartment. The unit was not in disarray nor was there any other evidence to suggest a violent struggle had occurred between the couple before the gunfire. An autopsy of both shooting victims corroborated the finding of investigators who suspected the incident was a murder-suicide.

Goodell was unemployed, and officials think Benjamin worked in information technology.